Tina Turner Quotes

There's a difference in how I feel when I'm travelling and when I'm sitting still. I've been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there's different parts of the world that's more stimulating than other parts.

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Think
  • Know
  • Hero

• Success is the sweetest revenge.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Success
  • Revenge
  • Success Is

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Love
  • Justice

• 'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Military

• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Man

• People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Obstacles

• What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • American
  • Science

• Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Father
  • Career

• The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Success
  • New

• I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Really
  • Go
  • Fortunate

• If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Family
  • New

• I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Party
  • Win
  • Election

• I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Friend
  • Civilization
  • Actions

• I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Coal is a portable climate.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foesFirst reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;Each change of many-colored life he drew,Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new:Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,And panting Time toiled after him in vain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Learning

• Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Good
  • Adversity
  • Actions

• If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world around you as much as possible?

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Why
  • Blessed

• As long as I'm here living and breathing, I'm going to be moving.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Long
  • Moving

• Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Different
  • Female
  • Aesthetic

• There's a difference in how I feel when I'm travelling and when I'm sitting still. I've been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there's different parts of the world that's more stimulating than other parts.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • World
  • Different
  • Long